STEM Teacher Roundtable

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1 STEM Teacher Roundtable May 10, 2016 Whitney Butts Secure Computing & Communications MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (540)

2 MacB History & Timeline 2

3 MacB SCC MacAulay-Brown (MacB) Founded 1979, Corporate HQ in Dayton, OH 2000 employees at locations throughout the world Small Business Partnerships: 188 Secure Computing and Communications Division (SCC) acquired from Luna Innovations Inc. in spring of 2013 and located in Roanoke, VA MacB Customer Distribution A well balanced portfolio across the Federal Government market Providing Advanced Engineering Services and National Security Solutions

4 About Me North Carolina State University BS Mathematics Discrete Mathematics Computer Science Theory Rochester Institute of Technology MS Applied and Computational Mathematics Discrete Mathematics PhD Imaging Science Digital Image Processing Image Math Remote Sensing Almost

5 My Background What is Imaging Science? Multi-Disciplinary Field Mathematics, Physics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Psychology, Biology Image Chain Light, Interaction, Propagation & Collection, Detector or Sensor, Processing, Compression/Storage/Transmission, Display, Perception Many topics all with one foundation Mathematics!

6 6 How? How can we take multi-disciplinary topics and apply ideas to new domains?

7 Company Proprietary 7 Crossing Domains From Imaging to Hardware to Security

8 What is an FPGA? What is a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)? Silicon design: A commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer chip that can be customized post-manufacture (in the field) Custom design: Configured by a bitstream to become a specific application Used Everywhere Industrial control systems Networking Wired / wireless communications Automotive Video / audio processing Consumer electronics Aerospace and Defense IoT

9 Why are FPGAs Important? Real World Example Lockheed Awarded $105 Million to Buy Parts From Xilinx By Rich Smith More Articles June 10, 2013 Comments (0) The Department of Defense awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT ) a $104.7 milliondefense contract Monday -- but semiconductor maker Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX ) could be the real winner in this contract. According to a DoD summary of contracts issued Monday, Lockheed won the firm-fixed-price contract to procure and deliver 83,169 Xilinx field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) needed for the manufacture of several "lots" of Lockheed's F- 35 Lightning II fighter jet. Specifically, Lockheed needs the devices for "low rate initial production Lot VII" all the way through "full rate production Lot III" of the Joint Strike Fighter. Thus, it seems likely that much, if not all, of the revenue awarded to Lockheed via this contract will actually go to Xilinx, as it builds the chips needed to build Lockheed's birds. Once manufactured, the planes in question will be destined for use by the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy, as well as for the militaries of Australia, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, and the U.K. Lockheed is expected to obtain all necessary semiconductor parts by September 2014, or the third quarter of next fiscal year. Source: Source: An analytical framework for cyber security, Dan Kaufman, Director of I2O, DARPA, November 7,

10 Related Services Design Migration Translate bitstream of an old part Migrate design inside to a bitstream for a new part Verification Translate the bitstream Verify the design does what it is supposed to do Trust Space Applications Translate the bitstream Change bitstream to simulate space effects Confirm the design does only what it is supposed to do and nothing more Translate the bitstream and analyze to understand functional change For more information: fpga@macb.com

11 11 As Teachers Problem Solving and Team Work Thinking outside the box Focus on a variety of applications Encourage exploration Encourage that a clean record is necessary in many of these fields

12 Company Proprietary 12 Security is a Priority All potential employees and interns must be screened for security purposes. In the past seven years, have you been fired from a job or left under less than favorable conditions? Have you ever been arrested, investigated, detained, or charged with a criminal offense? In the last seven years have you had your driver s license suspended, revoked, or received a traffic fine over $300.00? In the last seven years have you ever experimented with, used or sold any illegal drugs?

13 Company Proprietary 13 Thank You Questions?